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Could Texas and Texas A&M meet in the SEC Championship? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: We're glad that you have made it part of your day.
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  Thank you very much for joining us. Craig Way alongside
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  the producer Cameron Parker, with you up till five o'clock.
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  Then I'm scurrying. I don't use the word scurry. That
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  often makes me think of like an eight year old
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  trying to or a you know, trying to get to
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  a playground, or a squirrel, the squirrel with a nut
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  kind of racing away scurrying. But I am scurry over
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  to Pluckers the West Campus location twenty twenty two year
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  grad Ryan me again, your favorite wing flavor is garlic palm.
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  Speaker 2: Driver up there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you know they have a spicy garlic palm. Have
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  you ever tried that?
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  Speaker 2: Not a big spicy person, but I have before. I
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  think they've gotten it mixed up before where they give
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  me this spicy and I'm like, why am I sweating
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  eating garlic palm? And then I realized, oh, there is
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  a spicy flavor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you on the spicy, but but I did
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  like the spicy lemon pepper. It was good. And those
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  were like customer fans suggested ones flavors that they came
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  up with. They rolling in the rolling in medium, it's
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  it's not Pluckers but Mondays. After Steve Sarkisian's Monday press
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  conference and before the player availability comes in, they'll bring
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  in Cregos and it's wings and it's lemon Pepper, and
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  I think there's the regular buffalo. The lemon Pepper's good
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  from Crego's okay good. I have not had Pluckers Lemon Peer.
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  I just had a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, it's
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  really really good. As we mentioned, we always open up
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  the uh text line for your for your questions and
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  your comments. If you'd like to visit with us, all
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  you have to do is UH text the word tech
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  follow by your question or comment to eight one five
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  three zero. So that's the word Texas, follow by your
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  question or comment to eight one five three zero. Standard
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  messaging and data rates may apply. Mine act apparently dropped out.
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  I got to pull it back up here. Do we
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  have a hanging chad of swords out there that we
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  need to address here that you mentioned?
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  Speaker 2: That was it Stevie Nicks appearing on SNL. Yes, someone Texans.
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  It's got to be a record for years in between appearances.
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  This textra was saying it's forty one years since she
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  last appeared Wow on Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 1: So she would have been If it's forty one years ago,
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  that's right in the thick of the eighth three, right
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  in the thick of the Fleetwood Mac era. If it's
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  been that long, Wow did not realize that it had been.
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  That would also tell me that if that's the case,
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  that would also tell me that that Fleetwood Mac did
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  not appear after like after the Room album or something.
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  You would think it would because it would be you know,
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  that was such a massive hit record for them, just
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  to just a transcendent album. It was so anyway, But that.
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  Speaker 2: And also that Saturday Night Live movie that is about
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  the first hour SNL that came out this past week,
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  good reviews. I wanted to see it last night. I
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  couldn't get to it in time. But for those who
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  have seen it, please let us own the text line
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  because it looked looked pretty funny. It's hard to replicate
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  those characters, right, Chevy, Chase, Belushill, all those guys, But
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  it looked pretty funny.
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  Speaker 1: If I could get enough time to be able to
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  do that these days, if I could get enough time
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  to be able to do that. I would certainly do that.
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  And some folks as, wait, a MANU, didn't you go
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  see a concert last night? I did. I did, and
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  that was something that was playing months ago. In fact,
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  I had the tickets for that concert for jeff Lin's Elo.
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  I had those tickets before we even knew the SEC
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  football schedule or at least the dates. Knew the opponents,
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  but didn't know the dates on those. So that's how
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  long ago that was. That was. It was a long
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  time ago when that happened.
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  Speaker 2: But one of their message coming in just the thought
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  Texas wins, guessing Texas wins this game, or Texas wins
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  up to game with A and M. So they went
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  out until A and M. They may already be an
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  SEC game. Possibly A and M may have to beat
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  Texas to get in. Then they would play in the
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  SEC championship. That's the thought that I talked to a
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  friend before I think yesterday, was saying that before the
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  A and M game, because that's one of the reasons
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  why that game scares me so much, not only the
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  fact that A and I think is actually a really
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  good football team and they have a great defense, and
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  Mike Coles actually really could coach, is that in that game,
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  Texas may already have clinched and SEC title appearance, and
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  A and M, who currently is undefeated and the only
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  other undefeated the SEC team besides Texas LSU, who they play.
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  If they lose that game or maybe lose one in between,
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  then they could go in that game against Texas needing
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  to win to get into the SEC title game, and
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  it could just be like the Army Navy.
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  Speaker 1: Thing, Yeah yeah, where they would need to win, and
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  that the Army Navy thing that with the dynamic we
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  talked about is it's conceivable would not go into the
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  what maybe it would go into the inconceivable file if
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  this actually happens. But it is. Both Army and Navy
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  are unbeaten. They both have won six games for the
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  six and zero for the first time since nineteen forty five,
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  and Army won the national championship that year. And it's
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  important to point out that Boat still have to play
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  Notre Dame and they're both playing Notre Dame in the
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  metropolitan New York area. It's not a road game. It's
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  like the old days you play in New York. This
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  is how like the old days it is Navy, if
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  I remember correctly, is playing them at the Meadowlands. Army
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  is playing them at wait for it, Yankee Stadium. Ooh,
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  like it used to be the old days when they
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  did that. And of course the pin strike balls at
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  Yankee Stadium every year anyway. But if if both of
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  those teams, Army and Navy both run the table the
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  rest of their schedule, inclusive of wins over Notre Dame,
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  they both would have wins over Notre Dame and they're
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  both eleven and oh would be their actual records going
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  into what would be the American Conference Championship. They would
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  be because if they've done that, they have vanquished all
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  contenders at that point in the American So you'd have
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  Army versus Navy for the American Conference Championship. Then they
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  would play and the winner of that game would get
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  an automatic bid at that point, because I think at
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  that point they're going to be the highest ranked G
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  five team. Even if Boise State runs the table, I
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  think wins the Mountain West has one more data point
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  because of winning the Mountain West Conference championship. In fact,
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  they would at that point they would be twelve and one.
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  The winner of the Army Navy. The winner of the
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  American Conference Championship game between Army and Navy under this
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  scenario would be eleven in one because they still have
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  to play each other the next week and that game
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  does not factor into the college football playoff. Now, I
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  will tell you this, there are probably folks in both
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  West Point and Annapolis who are kind of going, you know,
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  our game is unlike any other. But if we get
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  nosed out on a data point because our game happens
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  the week after the playoff field is announced, that's going
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  to bite them in the butt. That's unfortunate that it
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  would happen that way. But I would say this, a
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  twelve and zero Army or Navy team twelve and zero,
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  including winning the American Conference Championship over the other and
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  having went over to to day, that would nose out
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  a twelve and one Boise State team whose only loss
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  would beat Oregon. I think that it would just the
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  committee would then slay. Now let me also say this
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  the decent chance they both get in, yeah, in a
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  twelve team playoff. So you know, Greg Tepper from Dave
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  Campbells Texas Football Magazine raised the issue. Can you imagine
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  if they both went into the game eleven and zero
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  and say Army wins, Navy wins, whichever won one of
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  them wins to get to twelve and zero and earn
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  the automatic bid in there, and then they play the
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  next week, and the team that lost the week before
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  in the American Conference championship game wins the rematch in
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  the regular season finale, that maybe they both get in.
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  I don't think that would happen, especially especially if Boise
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  State runs the table. And there are other G five
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  contenders as well, but those are the main ones, those
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  are the main contenders. Toward that end, I was mentioning,
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  you know, Heather Dinnich had her ranking of what would
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  be the top twelve, and again, as she pointed out,
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  it would be flipped around and worked around because really,
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  you know, each power for conference champion SEC, Big ten, ACC,
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  Big twelve, those four conference champions will all draw a
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  first round. By then it's five through twelve, and of
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  course the five, six, seven, and eight eight seeds hosting
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  first round games. Well, toward that end, Austin Mock for
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  the Athletic draws up his projection and he has a
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  bracket every week. So this is always kind of fun
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  to look at as well. Put it this way, it's
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  more fun than projecting who's going to be in the
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  dollar general whatever that sort of thing. It just is
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  under his projection. How about this, Texas would be the
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  one seed, Oregon would be the two. You're ready for
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  the three and four? The three he's got Miami and
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  the four. Yes, Iowa State, Texas As the one would
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  face the winner of the eight to nine matchup. How
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  about this matchup Alabama Clemson and that would be in
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  touchcalusive as the higher seed. Iowa State would face the
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  winner of the five to twelve matchup Ohio State and
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  Boise State. That would be in Columbus. Oregon is the
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  two seed would play the winner of the seven versus
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  ten matchup, which is projected by Austin Mock to be
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  Georgia and Notre Dame and Miami. The three seed would
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  face the winner of an all Big ten matchup. Six
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  seed Penn State, eleven seed Indiana. Find out a little
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  more about Indiana. I have been game this week against Nebraska,
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  but it is at home. So that's that's his projection
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  right now. And he's got teams on the bubble. Kansas
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  State Tennessee, LSU, UNLV, and yes, Texas A and M.
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  Those are the ones there right now. The percentage chance
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  for Texas to reach the college football playoff, according to
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  the Athletic ninety four percent, to win the conference just
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  forty percent, and to win the national championship just fifteen
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  percent right now, Oregon at ninety four percent, Ohio State
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  at ninety four percent. In fact, Ohio State has the
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  highest percentage chance to win the national championship at twenty
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  one percent, Oregon at eleven percent, even though they just
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  beat Ohio State. Case you're wondering, Texas A and M
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  twenty seven percent chance according to the Athletic to make
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  the college football playoff. All right, So there you are.
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  Oh and about Army and Navy. Navy a ten percent
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  chance to get in, Army twenty three percent chance to
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  get in the playoff. So there it is, all right.
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  Up next, we're gonna hear from long Word, said Coutch
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  Steve Sarkishan here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the
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  zone of the iHeartRadio app.